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Table 5 Follow-up status for reliability testing by language group among participants completing the baseline survey and according to the follow-up mode chosen at the time of baseline testinga

From: Patient responses to research recruitment and follow-up surveys: findings from a diverse multicultural health care setting in Qatar

Decision at baseline for follow-up and actual follow-up outcome

All baseline respondents

Participants according to language group

 

N = 378

Arabic

English

Hindi

Urdu

P value

n (%)

N = 92

N = 95

N = 92

N = 99

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Chose no follow-up

170 (45)

52 (57)

30 (32)

52 (57)

36 (36)

 

Agreed to in-person follow-up

64 (17)

14 (15)

13 (14)

21 (23)

16 (16)

0.31

 Followed up

40

10

10

10

10

 

 Did not follow up

24

4

3

11

6

 

Agreed to follow-up survey by post

144 (38)

26 (28)

52 (55)

19 (21)

47 (47)

0.31

 Not mailed outb

6

0

2c

0

4 d

 

 Mailed out

138

26

50

19

43

0.89

  Undeliverable

12

4

4

1

3

 

  Completed, mailed back

29

4

11

4

10

 

  Not received back

97

18

35

14

30

 
  1. a Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100 %
  2. b No mailing address provided
  3. c One participant asked the research assistant to call later for the address, but she never provided it; she later asked to receive the survey by e-mail. Another participant promised to e-mail her address; however, after 2 e-mail reminders, she replied that she could not provide her address and was out of town
  4. d Two participants did not provide their address upon reminder. A third participant did not provide her street address and wanted to receive the survey by e-mail. The father of a fourth participant would not allow their address to be disclosed